‘I wanted to understand what’s going on from the judge’s side’
For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.
February 12, 2025
Clinical Programs
Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (OCP)
Wasserstein Hall, Suite 3085
6 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Clinics give students hands-on legal experience under the supervision of attorneys. With clinical placements in-house and at organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS students participate in more clinical placements than any law school in the world.
Clinics are open to 2L, 3L, and LL.M. students. Each clinic is tied to a classroom component: students receive clinical credit for their legal practice in clinics and academic credit for the course component. In addition, most clinics allow students to fulfill HLS’s 50 hours pro bono graduation requirement.
In the News
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Julia Devanthéry, a housing justice advocate and a visiting assistant clinical professor, launches clinical curricular innovation initiative at Legal Services Center
Devanthéry has designed and launched a curricular innovation initiative to ensure students across the Legal Services Center’s six public interest clinics develop consistent advocacy skills to be effective and inclusive lawyers — on issues ranging from client-centered lawyering to trauma-informed advocacy to lawyering for racial justice.
February 6, 2025
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‘The battle between states is ripe for a legal showdown’
Health Law & Policy Clinic’s Carmel Shachar ’10 discusses the rapidly evolving legal issues around telehealth care delivered across state lines
February 5, 2025
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Aiding the Amish
Harvard Law students secure early win in challenge to Ohio’s buggy light law
February 5, 2025
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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
On NPR Throughline’s We the People: the Eighth Amendment, the death penalty, and what cruel and unusual really means, featuring Carol Steiker, director of the Capital Punishment Clinic.
January 31, 2025
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Winter term across the world
From cities to farms, tropics to tundras, Harvard Law students traveled near and far to do legal work in many corners of the globe this January. Through the independent clinical program, students have the opportunity to work in placements across the U.S. and the world during the winter term.
January 29, 2025
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Scholarship from the Clinics: On Venue Diversion and Enforced Disappearances
This post highlights recent works published by HLS clinicians Rosa Hayes and Susan Farbstein.
January 23, 2025
